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• California
Officials rejected an emergency permit application June 9 that Exxon Mobil
Corp., had proposed to use semi-trucks to haul crude oil along Highway 101 to a
refinery facility while crews repair a breach in Plains All American Pipeline’s
Line 901. – Santa Barbara Independent

2. June 10, Santa Barbara Independent –
(California) County denies ExxonMobil request to haul oil by truck. Santa
Barbara County officials rejected an emergency permit application June 9 that
Exxon Mobil Corp., had submitted requesting permission to use semi-trucks to
haul up to 1,290,240 gallons of crude oil a day along Highway 101 to a refinery
facility while crews repair a breach in Plains All American Pipeline’s Line
901, which spilled over 100,000 gallons into coastal waters in May. Source: http://www.independent.com/news/2015/jun/10/county-denies-exxonmobil-request-haul-oil-truck/

• St. Mary’s Medical
Center in Florida has suspended elective pediatric heart surgeries June 7 after
an investigation revealed an abnormally high mortality rate within the hospital
for the procedures, prompting a Federal probe into the hospital. – CNN

15. June 8, CNN – (Florida) Hospital suspends
elective heart surgeries on children after CNN investigation. St. Mary’s
Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida has suspended elective pediatric
heart surgeries after an investigation revealed June 7 an abnormally high
mortality rate within the hospital for the procedures, prompting a Federal
probe into the hospital by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The
hospital announced that it would launch a comprehensive review involving
external experts. Source: http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/08/health/hospital-suspends-elective-heart-surgeries-on-children-after-cnn-investigation/

• The White House
press briefing room and portions of U.S. Senate Office Buildings in Washington,
D.C., were evacuated June 9 after reports of suspicious packages and a phoned
bomb threat. – NBC News

6. June 9,
Orange County Register – (California) Fullerton man among three
convicted in loan modification scheme. The co-owner Rancho Cucamonga,
California-based 21st Century Legal Services Inc., and 2 co-defendants were
convicted June 9 for their roles in a $7 million loan modification scheme that
victimized over 4,000 distressed home owners who were falsely promised loan
modifications and other services. Seven other defendants previously pleaded
guilty in connection to the scheme. Source: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/fraud-665516-faces-mail.html

Information Technology Sector

20. June 10,
Softpedia – (International) Microsoft patches zero-day used in targeted
attacks. Microsoft released eight security bulletins, including
vulnerability in Windows’ kernel-mode driver Win32k.sys that was leveraged by
threat actors to elevate privileges and execute arbitrary code on affected
machines. The bulletins also included two critical security patches for
Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player that could have allowed the
possibility of remote code execution. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Patches-Zero-Day-Used-in-Targeted-Attacks-483879.shtml

21. June 10, Help Net Security – (International) Financial impact of SaaS storage
breaches now $13.85 million. Findings from analysis in Elastica’s Shadow
Data Report revealed that the direct financial impact of exposed data in
software as a service models can be up to $13.85 million, and that 1.34 percent
of all accounts had signs of malicious activities. Analysis also indicated that
the healthcare industry suffers the highest frequency of policy violations due
to leaks of protected health information, among other findings. Source: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=18493

23. June 9,
Softpedia – (International) DDoS attacks increase in Q2 2015, largest one
over 253Gbps strong. Incapsula released findings from a report on
distributed denial-of-service attacks in the second quarter of 2015 which
revealed that powerful user datagram protocol (UDP) and synchronize (SYN)
floods were the preferred method of network-layer attacks, while
botnet-for-hire services were typically used to probe defenses. Incapsula
reported that out of 56 percent of UDP and SYN floods seen, 8 percent were
launched from “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices, among other findings. Source:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/DDoS-Attacks-Increase-in-Q2-2015-Largest-One-Over-253Gbps-Strong-483814.shtml

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U.S. Army Retired Chief Warrant Officer with more than 40 years in information technology and 35 years in information security. Became a Certified Information Systems Security Professional in 1995 and have taught computer security in Asia, Canada and the United States. Wrote a computer security column for 5 years in the 1980s titled "for the Sake Of Security", penname R. E. (Bob) Johnston, which was published in Computer Decisions.
Motto: "When entrusted to process, you are obligated to safeguard"